Artisan command says : Dotenv values containing spaces must be surrounded by quotes

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Md. Abu Taleb picture Md. Abu Taleb · Apr 26, 2017 · Viewed 38.1k times · Source

I'm trying to know the list of artisan command by using php artisan list . and the command return me the following error [Dotenv\Exception\InvalidFileException] Dotenv values containing spaces must be surrounded by quotes. What is wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Answer

Alexey Mezenin picture Alexey Mezenin · Apr 26, 2017

You should remove all spaces from .env file to make an app work again.

If you have to use spaces, instead of this:

VAR=some data

Use quotes:

VAR="some data"

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